CODDLE meaning: Treat gently with excessive care

We found 31 dictionaries that define the word coddle:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

coddle: Merriam-Webster
coddle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
coddle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
coddle: Collins English Dictionary
coddle: Vocabulary.com
Coddle, coddle: Wordnik
coddle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
coddle: Wiktionary
coddle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
coddle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
coddle: Infoplease Dictionary
Coddle, coddle: Dictionary.com
coddle: Online Etymology Dictionary
coddle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Coddle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Coddle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
coddle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
coddle: Rhymezone
Coddle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
coddle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
coddle: FreeDictionary.org
coddle: Mnemonic Dictionary
coddle: TheFreeDictionary.com
coddle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

coddle: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

coddle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

CODDLE: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

Coddle: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
coddle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To treat gently or with great care.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
▸ noun:  An Irish dish comprising layers of roughly sliced pork sausages and bacon rashers with sliced potatoes and onions.
▸ noun:  (archaic) An effeminate person.

Similar:

cosset, pamper, mollycoddle, baby, spoil, cocker, indulge, featherbed, cherish, manage, more...

Opposite:

neglect, ignore, abandon, disregard

Types:

hard coddle, soft coddle, coddle egg, more...

Phrases:

molly coddle, more...

Adjectives:

molly, such, moll, old, little, year, helpless

Colors:

soft pink, baby blue, pastel yellow, lavender, mint green, more...